Curtain-holder.



R. PELTZER CURTAIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 24. 1912.

1,054,309 Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

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CURTAIN-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 24, 1912.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

Serial No. 692.838.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Itt ooLr Pin/ruin, a citizen of the United States. residing at Beckley, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in curtain holders, and the object of my improvement is to produce a device that will be suitable for being positioned at the side casing of a window and for holding a lace curtain drawn to one side from the window space and will be convenient for facilitating the insertion and removal of the curtain.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a side elevation of my curtain holder in position for use on a window casing, and showing part of a lace curtain held therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation and on an enlarged scale of the curtain holder. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same on the line w-m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the blank for the base. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the blank for the moving member. Fig. 6 is an edge view of a modification of the holder.

My curtain holder A comprises a base B and a moving member C pivotally connected by means of a pivotal pin D and held normally in the closed position by means of a spring E.

The base B comprises a flat elongated plate-like body portion 11, suitable for serving as a jaw for cooperating with amating jaw for receiving and retaining the lace curtain F, and also as a supporting plate. and provided with screw holes 12 for re taining screws and the said body portion is provided at the outer end 14 with a pair of laterally disposed and forwardly turned ears 15 that are provided with holes 16 in alinement and suitable for receiving the pivotal pin D, and adjacent the ears 15 there is a hole 17 suitable for receiving one end of the spring E.

The moving member C comprises a body portion 18 that is suitable to serve as the mating jaw referred to above to cooperate with the jaw or body portion 11 .of the base B and is preferably elongated and curved as shown to have the outer end meet the outer end of the base body portion or jaw 11 and to provide a space 24: between the two jaws suitable for accommodating the lace curtain F and is provided at the outer end with a pair of rearwardly directed cars .20 suitable for cooperating with the cars 15 on the base It and which have pivotal holes 21 in registration with the pivotal holes 16 in the base I) and also suitable for receiving the pivotal pin I). and there is also provided adjacent the cars 20 a hole 22 suitable for receiving the other end of the spring I11. Adjacent the inner end on the end at which the lace curtain F is admitted to the jaws 11 and 18 there is a handle 25, shown in Fig. 3 as integral.

The pivotal pin D passes through the holes 16 and 21.. and serves thereby to pivotally connect the base B and the moving member C. As shown, the cars 20 of the moving member C are positioned on the outer sides of the cars 15. and the ears 15 are separated by an appreciable space. The said space serves as a housing for the body portion 23 of the spring E, which is a coil spring and is mounted on the pivotal pin D as a shaft. The free ends of the sprmg E pass over the inner ends of the base B and moving member C respectively and by a return bend have the extreme ends brought to the holes 17 and 22 in which they are inserted. The spring E is under wound tension and tends to open outwardly and in so doing tends to hold the jaw 18 closed against the jaw 11. The space 21 is limited on the inner side by the cars 15 so that there is no liability of bringing the curtain F into contact with the body of the spring E and the extreme ends of the spring E are housed in the holes 17 and 22 so that these are not exposed and liable to come into contact with the curtain.

In use, the base B is secured to the casing G. Tilting back the moving member C opens the jaw 18 so that the curtain F may be admitted to the space 24 after which after releasing the moving member G the jaw closed by the spring E and retained thereby in the closed position.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6 the handle 25 is shown as a separate knob and is secured to the body portion 18 by the moving member C by means of a rivet 26.

My device as described is convenient in use for facilitating the insertion and removal of the curtain, and for retaining the curtain within the space between the jaw members and with the free ends of the jaws in contact and avoiding a direct pinching members when it is desired to insert the curtaintherein and when moved to the same posltlon permits of unobstructed removal of the curtain, the inclination of the free end,

even in a partially open position being such as to facilitate the curtain slipping past the free end. The fixed jaw member being plane, the same permits of free movement of the curtain in either direction.

I claim as my invention A curtain holder comprising a base member and a moving member, the inner ends of the said members provided with pivotally connected overlapping ears, and with spring means tending to hold the said members in closed position, and permitting of nearly 90 degrees of movement of the said moving member, the free portions of the said members being of relatively large extent, that of the base member being plane, that of the moving member. being suitably shaped to RUDOLF PELTZER.

Witnesses:

SHEFFIELD H. CLARKE,- ROGER ED\VARDS. 

